Improving Your Writing: The Power of Revision
Writing is a continuous process of refinement. Revision involves revisiting your work from a fresh perspective to enhance its content and organization. Consistency is key to ensuring all ideas support the main theme while maintaining logical flow. Pay attention to content, organization, proofreading for grammar and mechanics, and fixing common issues like run-on or choppy sentences.
- Writing Improvement
- Revision Techniques
- Content Organization
- Proofreading Skills
- Language Refinement
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What is revision Writing is ever perfect the first time. You need to refine to improve your writing Revision means to see again to look at something from a fresh, critical perspective Revising is improving the content and organization of your writing
Writing needs consistency. This means that all ideas work together to support the main idea Sentences and paragraphs must be strongly connected Think of writing as a chain Each link (sentence) is connected to the topic sentence.
Content and Organization Read over your paragraph carefully for a general overview. Check to see that you have achieve your stated purpose Check for general logic and coherence. Delete words or sentences that take away from topic or are redundant Adding words or sentences that bridge ideas or adds meaningful description Make sure that controlling idea is developed with sufficient supporting details. Be certain that each paragraph gives the reader enough information to understand main idea of the paragraph
Proofreading: Grammar and Mechanics Check over each sentence for correctness and completeness: no fragments or choppy or run on sentences Check over each sentence for a subject and verb, subject verb agreement, correct verb tenses etc Check for the mechanics: punctuation, spelling, capitalization, typing error Change vocabulary words as necessary
Run on Sentence I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time. I love to write papers; I would write one every day if I had the time. I would write one every day if I had the time since I love to write papers
Choppy sentence Too many short simple sentences can make your writing appear unsophisticated and your ideas seem disconnected. Choppy: She took dance classes. She had no natural grace or sense of rhythm. She eventually gave up the idea of becoming a dancer. Revised: She took dance classes, but she had no natural grace or sense of rhythm, so she eventually gave up the idea of becoming a dancer.
I do: The best revision is to: The new mall is fabulous. It has a great food court. The food at school is terrible. The mall also has a skating rink. I love ice skating, but it hurts my ankles. A. Delete sentences 1 & 2 B. Delete sentences 3 & 4 C. Delete sentences 4 & 5 D. Delete sentences 3 & 5 E. Delete sentences 2 & 4 The new mall is fabulous. It has a great food court. The mall also has a terrific skating rink. This needs revision because it should be praising the new mall. Instead it talks about other things.
APK (Day 2) We have learned that when we delete to revise we take out words or sentences that are not related to the main topic, are repetitive, or are overused. (1)Hummingbirds are the smallest of all birds. (2)The largest living bird is the ostrich. (3)Hummingbirds are colorful creatures that range in size from 2 to 8 inches in length. (4)They can fly up to 60 miles per hour, moving their wings and an amazing 50 to 75 beats for second! (5)Hummingbirds burn so much energy that they are need to eat almost constantly during daylight hours. (6)My big brother eats constantly too! We can delete sentence 2 to revise because it is not related to the main topic. What other sentence can we delete to revise?
Closure What is it called when we make our thoughts clearer? A. I am going to tell you why hummingbirds are interesting birds. They can fly up to 60 miles per hour. Their wings move at a rate of 50 to 75 beats per second. B. Hummingbirds are amazing creatures! Their wings move at a rate of 50 to 75 beats per second, allowing them to fly up to 60 miles per hour. What is something you learned about clarifying to revise?
